small image + BIG poster
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- centro
I am producing a large poster for display in a bus shelter. I have come up with 3 visuals which are vector based, but my client wants (demands) to see one with some photos of people (cutout). The problem is, is that the images are quite small.
I reckon the only way I could use these is to 'treat' them in Photoshop and make them look lo-fi. This is fine as the target audience is teenagers.
Anyone got any ideas/examples of treating small images for use on a large scale?
Thank you.
- BaskerviIle0
Should be fine, for a bus shelter ad you won't need a 300dpi quality photo for that size anyway.
I just did some largescale banners (1.5m high) and I used a 1meg photo for one of them. I increased the resolution in ps and then treated the image by adding noise and some blur to silmulate grain of an older photo. Looks fine.Or you could look at using Livetrace in illustrator and setting the settings really detailed, so you have an almost photographic vector image which can then be scaled to you heart's content
- ian0
Quite like these new ads and posters, been seeing them a fair bit recently.
- I imagine they were high res photos since nic knight took them :)BaskerviIle
- Aye, the bg images are high-res but the portraits look vectorised/treated in a similar way you described above...ian
- stem0
You also have to take into account the viewing distance. What would look really ropey close-up will look fine at 5 meters.
Like Baskerville said, you can get away with small file sizes, some printers only require artwork at 10% of finished size (at 300dpi) for large format stuff.
- I need to supply it at quater the final size - images at 300 - 450dpicentro
- SHAMAN0
I say do a quick mock up, enlarge it to size and show him a piece of it in the low quality compared to how clean the vector is. Clients won't understand that until you show them, and even then they are idiots.